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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Troodon, post: 365100, member: 4626&quot;]The premiums collecting on basically every commemorative coin is designated to go somehwere... usually some organization related to the person or event the coin commemorates (for example, a portion of the 2007 Desegregation Dollar premiums went to the organization that preserves Little Rock Central High School as a historic site.)&nbsp; Collectors aren&#039;t forced to donate to the cause... they can always just not by the coin... but the original sale of commemorative coins has always gone to some organization.&nbsp; That was, and mostly still is, the whole point in minting commemoratives in the first place: as a fundraising tool.&nbsp; Seems silly that any collectors would object to this specific act of fundraising when every commoerative was designed to raise money for something...</p><p><br /></p><p>Nice coin.&nbsp; I remember in 1999 (watched it on C-SPAN) that Mt. Vernon did a complete recreation of Washington&#039;s funeral to mark the 200th anniversary of his death... done in extremely accurate detail, even to the point of Martha just looking out the window of the house and not coming down to attend the funeral in person.&nbsp; Interesting thing to see.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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